Kitchen

I took up this book names Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.
Name of the book is strange so is the name of the author. Even characters were strange appearing from nowhere and vanishing when you started thinking about them. There was mention of kitchen in the starting abut then again there was nothing much. One should not read lines in this book but what is going on behind lines.
I hardly found a sentence worth taking down. I think this book was not meant for that. There was story and it was always going backward rather than moving forward. There would be a page forward but then it would move years back. I could only understand the turmoil of the protagonist in the pages. Only in the last page I could find something worth copying down.

Hitoshi:
I will never be able to be here again. As the minutes slide by I move on. The flow of time is something I cannot stop. i haven’t a choice. I go.
One caravan has stopped another starts up. There are people I have yet to meet, others I will never meet again. People who are gone before you know it, people just passing through. Even as we exchange hellos we grow transparent. I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes.
I earnestly pray that my girl-child self will always be with you.
Foe waving good bye I thank you.

Promise of God

20th April 1998 Kodaicanal
Three promises of God
1. Ask, thy shall be granted.
2. Search, you will get it.
3. Knock, it shall be opened.

But we prefer not to heed them. We ask from god and complain after disappointment. We search for worldly object and expect to find God and we wait at the door step of world and expect the door of God to open.

Muslim Identity

Nice post appeared In The Pioneer.
http://dailypioneer.com/DisplayContent.aspx?ContentID=303263&URLName=Indian-Muslim-Indian-first-Muslim-later
There is personal incident narrated telling how the separate identity is created in society unconsciously even at at the tender age.
In the later section it analyzes latest Bihar election in this regard. Here are the words.
how difficult it must be for Indian Muslims to keep their national identity ahead of their religious identity. There was always something or the other, which brought the identity of the Indian Muslim under scrutiny repeatedly. Latest being the controversy created by Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh’s comments.

It has to do with the political, intellectual and community leadership. But isn’t that a hackneyed observation. Indeed, it is but I want to take it further. Left to them, the community is capable of taking very commendable decision. In this direction, Bihar has shown the way.

In the just concluded Assembly polls, with no community leader of substance in the reckoning, the Muslim voting pattern varied from constituency to constituency. If they embraced Nitish Kumar-led NDA on a large number of seats, they totally rejected him in the Muslim majority Kishanganj. The rejection followed the NDA attempt to hoist a discredited Taslimuddin on the masses.

Similarly, while the Muslims deserted a listless RJD and LJP of Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan, still the decent Muslim leaders from these parties managed to win. If Rahul Gandhi was rejected for raising hands with Ranjeet Ranjan and Lovely Anand, Lalu Prasad was rejected for visiting Shahabuddin in Siwan jail just ahead of the polls. Do we need a more compelling example to support the Muslim desire to join the national mainstream?

Ghummakkar

Today a when a man is able to save some money he goes on to buy a land. Then comes making of house. And then making family. Why family because he feels that has been a tradition in society. Of course there are people who don't feel the same and they have done away with the family making step. They still continue to live and even claim to live happily. leaving those numerical minority most of the people want to belong to somewhere, somebody and something.
Now think about the ghummakar- wanderers. They do not belong to some where but that do not bother them at all. They belong to every where. In fact they make every place as their own. They do make choices. They settle down at some place seeing the favorable condition to prolong their life as long as they can. And then a time comes when they uproot their tents and move to a new place. They are free from attachment of place. Since they are on move they cannot afford to accumulate many things. less luggage more comfort. makes travel a pleasure. They are happy. It is not mean that they dont have problems. Like anybody else they too have problems- just another set of them. What is difference is they have less burden and lesser worries. life is light. They can never become rich. richness is not the part of their goal. the part of their goal is to live and to flow in the current of time. They have been taught of this flow since their birth. They have few people who move with them but their uniqueness is that they never feel alien among the new people and new culture too. That is their strength. They find out a link which can connect them to the new group of people. but they will never make any bond so strong which cannot be snapped when time pulls them away.
Now look ata the people who want to belong to somewhere some people and something. They too are in flux but they shut their eyes to the change they want to precipitate while time wants then to dissolve. They acquire some place and some people and some things too. they try to resist the pull of time. it goes on for some time till the power of time over takes and snaps then away. It becomes very painful for the person and also to the people and the place where he belonged because the bond was strong and it caused pain. But eventually very one has to flow in time. Ghummakar are trained in this while others ....

Excitement and Tension

The present day excitement is rooted in the inherent tension of individual. Everyone wants some change to happen. It is very surprising how few changes have taken place. How the entertainment has changed. If you talk of entertainment what comes to mind is movie- one of the predominant way of present day entertainment. What is movie? Many will tell it is story telling. How many viewers will accept this point? In plain term it is only exploitation of the present tension in the mind in that two to three hour. They have another aim that is to keep that tension alive. Mind should not become truth seeker but at the most a fact finder. Truth is not seen it is fact which is seen. People are being told to look for facts. Facts are presented in front of them sometimes selective fact. While eyes see facts, mind is seeking truth. It tries to visualize truth. When selective fact is served with certain intent a distorted picture of truth is formed. Once a mind accepts something as truth it becomes basis for further perception and experience. If all the facts are provided to maintain the turbulence what better can we expect than what we see around us.

Thesis and antithesis

For every concept to exist, there has to be a counter concept. only absolute can exist without contradiction. But then, Absolute does not need discussion. In fact it cannot be observed. It is only an open and humble mind which accepts the possibility of other. Everything is existence. Going further, everything is projection of our own concept about it. As long as one stays in this world of duality and multiplicity one cannot deny existence of others. This perception of other is derived not from others, but from within. Others are just the screen of our projected concept. While we get so much engrossed in viewing our self-righteous projection, we go into even unconscious denial of the other. This self-righteous projection takes our concentration away from us and leads to self self destruction.
One cannot start journey from an unknown far away imaginary point. It must start from the point of standing. so we must understand where do we stand. Next should be acceptance of multiplicity around us, not by judging but accepting.
what we need is certainly not somebody or something we need yourself to be what we are. Joy and sorrow spring out from within. when we can locate our self we can even understand the grand pattern and importance of others. We are moving on earth in straight line. but the earth itself is curved so we the straight line ends up having a bent. so are we going in circle? may be but the earth itself is rotating and circumnavigating around the Sun. So we are moving to a greater distance in some spiral pathway. Spiral! are we evolving. Give a break to the thought process. The sun itself is moving in the Milky way. and the Milky way is also receding away from some unknown center. So every moment we are in a different point of space matrix. Three dimensional space, which transforms itself into a plane to accommodate other existences. and all these planes together become a point on the scale of time.
Are we to concentrate on this flux of time and space? Or better find that unmoving point and unchanging I within us?

Drama in Parliament

It is easy to see through the drama our leaders are playing. They are supposed to be good actors but even in that they are not good. Their face betrays them. There is no sincerity accompanying the high words they utter. So what they tell is lost in the airwaves. It never touches heart. It is to be wondered, how many are ready to give up life for a cause.

Most of the people will blame government for the misdeeds. But in parliamentary democracy equal if not more share falls on opposition. We don’t have control over government and but we have sent opposition for the same purpose. If they cannot make something happen they are not worth the salt. If they feel that they are right then have lost confidence in support of people? They know fully well that people are loosing confidence in them. We have to manage with whatever leadership we have. It is not to think that they are some sort of fool. But loks like they have lost power of innovation? Have they lost connection with people? Why don’t they go on hunger strike on mass and let`s see how government is not acting. But Arun Shourie has told it right all are one and the same with different names. Who ever will come will do effectively the same just in different way.

Wiki leaks Niira Radia and What not

The first is the representative phenomena at the world level where as the later one is of national level. Question is often asked, who is afraid of leak? The one who has a lot to hide is afraid of leaks. In most of these cases, it is showing the double face, our so called leaders are having.

World is dominated by policies of America. If any policy has to see the light it will have to have sanction of USA. Earlier USSR was also included in this. What happens when absolute power is given in some hands. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Society should see to it that there must not be absolute power in any hands. We must accept that we are human being and every one suffers certain weaknesses. The one in power will try to accumulate power the one with money will try to accumulate money.

Surprisingly, even after these disclosures none are ready to accept the reality. The story of the naked king should be retold to them. It would have been much easier to accept the reality. What is wrong in accepting that one nation spies on other. There is certain perception about everything which cannot be told openly. Why USA should send apology to other nations. US government is not working for other nation but for its own people. And whatever is good for American should be pursued- even if that means supporting a rogue or killing and innocent. It is people of America who should judge their government. Though there is lot of hullabaloo over the exposure, it will be too much to expect from world over to react to the leaks. They will try every time to save exposed people because everyone is naked in the pool. They think that people are fool and few people have got higher intelligence than other. The same so called free media have gone silent. It is to be understood that they were never free. They were mouthpiece of somebody. And when that body was hurt they are told to keep quite not even cry.

While world over taken to retaliation by accusing the leaker of fraud and many other unlawful activities, in Bharat it has taken a different turn-Black out. At this time it looks media house are in hand in hand. Don’t say don’t talk. People have short memory every thing will be forgotten. Yes, every thing will be forgotten for they are not worth remembering. What is wrong in accepting in what you are. The problem is that we have projected our image to be greater than our real self and the image has become the burden for us.

Editors have bias- who does not know this fact? By saying that one does not know it is not fooling others but your own self. I don’t think anybody will object to that. In that sense I think few have been more open than others. It is very easy to appreciate Swapan Dasgupta, Chandan Mitra (of The Pioneer) and alike to accept their bias. That is open. Nobody will expect more from them. They will also not fall short in expectations of people. But Padgaonkar (of TOI) Vinod Sharma (of HT) Vinod Mehta (Outlook) and alike will never accept their allegiances, while it is bare open in every word they offer and every though they try to camouflage. Better not talk of TV anchor who are given unnecessary publicity for the word the word they utter. It appears, the chance to sit as the anchor comes with the quality of looking good and power to set aside logic and sensationalize every nonsense.

There was one piece of news which appeared and that was like a soothing balm in to the pain cause by everyone else. That was by Arun Shourie. He told it that all concerned people would go through the primary sources and understand the situation using their own intelligence. Relying on interpretation by other will not be good for anybody. We have to teach people to be that if something concerns them, then it should be studies thoroughly. That will give the power of knowledge in every hand. If one clear rest will follow.

Accidents and O rgan Donation

I was going though news when i heard that there is proposal by health ministry to net work the organ donation act. they put up statistics. Organs are needed in thousands if not lakhs but what is available barely crosses two digit. Health secretary mentioned that it is shameful for th country with billion to say that it does not have organs to donate. I wondered about the logic. After all, we dont have many things. we dont have food to feed million, cloth to wrap the body and home to shelter them. we dont have medicine for a child dying of epidemic in remote corner. We dont have teachers to teach our children. No use of asking these question.
Organs are necessary. Why? most of th e people waiting for them are the Richie rich. Who would not mind strangulating few to increase additional zeroes in their bank accounts.
So how to get it? They will punch the organ donation on driving license. Why? there is high number of traffic accidents. So next time a traffic accident occurs it will be a positive signal somewhere. Some people will be waiting for such accidents to occur. Those, who will die in th accidents, will be termed as martyrs. Next time traffic accidents will be good sign for health sector. What about he case if the person is found to be without license. At the lat signal he was let go by the cop for mere Rs 50/-. And wondered if there id not going to be auction of organ where a foreigner with higher bid will end up reaping the benefit of the accident. we will become good in the eyes of world community. Organ donor nation.
Lets not talk of many possibilities. Hope many people will get in the Que of organ donation and get their driving license marked. sooner than later land in accident and make the organ recipient happy.

Holes

Name of the Book: Holes
Author: Louis Sachar

When i pocked it uo i thought it might have some relation with Sacchar of Sacchar cammitte fame. i was thinking that it it nice plot to be adapted for drama or movie, only to realize later that a movie was make on it.
Imaginative. Aimed at children but involving even for elders. something foe everyone. If you understand the sentence you get meaning, if you look between the lines you understand further and if you can read between the pages yuo understand further. Every word with very good taste.
I enjoyed through out.

Sunlight

Sunlight is the best disinfactant
- Arun Shourie in devil advocate While speaking on Nira Radia Tapes

Many a things are kept under carpet in the name of security. It is not for security but the benefit. Every thing should be open to person who is worthy and needs it. Hiding of fact makes it rot and then it emits foul stench. It may be ignores for some time but beyond that it becomes unbearable. At any time best way of disinfecting a rot is to expose it to the sunlight of knowledge and honesty. Only corrupted mind does selective reading.

A New storyline

Yesterday, when I was waiting for train while going to Kanazawa Sai center a story line flashed. Here is the outline.

There are multiple worlds in existence with time and space intermingled with each other.
Time scale of one level is different from others.
Curvature of space is different in these existence.
Just by moving to other level one can circumvent the physical law relating to time and space.
One cannot simply move from one to other. there ara interconnecting passages.
Most of the people are allowed to be in their respective planes of existences.
Migration from one to another is governed by the law of Karma.
Willful transition from one to another plane is through a guidance of expert.
Those who don`t understand this it appears miracle.

Culture of Bharat is well informed in this subject.
It talks of Loka-kaal concept.

Why people have gone blind

Bharat restarted it`s journey after independence. It was in saddle to march towards its destiny and when such journey starts there comes problems. When a society has some problem, it should not try to rest the matter with quick fix solution, imported from elsewhere. Even though problems look similar, because of the unique background of the societies, the solution too have to be unique to them. One can be inspired from else where, but the lasting solutions have to be from within. This was the factor which was forgotten, while drafting the policy for Bharat. It`s roots were forgotten. People, who were power centers at that time, were inspired by western development. There was probably one person who could have made things better- he was Mahatma Gandhi. He was shifted to the background of Noakhali to soothe the wounds created by partition. There were deeper lines being drawn for the future partition.

Instead of reinventing and rediscovering Bharateeya self, it was considered better to don a clock of western pattern. We lost faith in our inherent power. We lost our connection to our innate divinity. Our leader proclaimed that Modern Bharat`s temples are manufacturing units. In this process we changed our ideals and with time in such temples money became god and corrupt people became the priest. Power was centered in money and authority was centered in power. So at last everything got centered around money. That was the great downfall of the society.

It is never too late beyond control to restart. At some time people have to decide and change the trend.

Reading Norwegian Wood

Well written adolescent novel. Nice description of ordinary scenes through an ordinary eyes. It makes reader feel of possible the acquaintance to scene somewhere down the memory lane.
Few lines are like water stream oozing out of the soil mildly reminding of the water within the hard crust of earth.
page 145
"I guess I am opposite to brilliant," said Naoko. "I don`t understand anything they are doing here - any better than i understand myself."
"It is not because you are not smart," I said. "You are normal. I`ve got tons of things I don`t understand about myself. We are both normal: ordinary".

I was going through the passage where it dealt Midori's father's hospital condition. i rembered grandfather in-law of Kalyani. i had gone to see him on his last day.
he was almost dead.little breathing and defecating that was left as impression as life. i was amazed with the job Kalyani was doing in cleaning him regularly when everone else had given up.
i had joined them in their journey to village. i with her father in law were in front. she was in middle seat with rest of the place filled by body of the dying mad. i think every one took him to be dead too. there was no pain no pleasure. open eyes wanted to say something which nobody wanted to know. we went all the way till village. she cleaned him again. something wehich made everyone appreciate for the service which she rendered. i too was amazed to see the stuff she was made of. i did not why she only did it nobody else came forward. we were served food and were about to eat when the new was conveyed that he had gone 'cold' and we could not eat after that. few ladies cried but it looked like ritual. many gents were relieved with what had happened.


****

... , I suddenly thought of my old girl friend,....Chil ran through me as i realized how badly i had treated her. I had hardly thought about her thoughts or feelings or the pain I had caused her. She was such asweet and gentle thing, but at the timei had taken her sweetness ofr granted and later hardly gave hera second thought. What was she doing now? I wondered. And has she forgiven me?

A wave of nausea came over me and i vomited....

*****

New Education Policy

Education policy is not a job scheme to offered by the government it should be a future making process. There should not be any compromise on the quality front. If education policy is taken care then in due course every individual of the society will be leader for themselves and then the power get decentralized in real sense.

Present day education policy has produced people as beggars of few particular shinning jobs. This system was introduced by British, Lord Macaulay, to train the colonized people in serving interest of the ruler. They wanted the common people to be dependent upon them for every small thing so that they could continue the rule forever. After freedom from that rule focus should have been to remove the yoke of the policy but it was not done so. Th fault lies with the people who were at that time at the helm of the affair. They themselves had been trained in that education policy. They learn the new meaning of freedom, liberty and equality while getting educated. They struggled against the rule following those principle. So they were grateful to the system. It became to holy to be touched. There is nothing wrong in learning anything from anywhere but such idea should not be implemented verbatim. Evey land has its own history and culture. Any system should be in continuum to the past. a society should be cut from the past abruptly, in fact not even slowly. Past if proved where as present is only experiment and future is only and idea.


Present day education is classified into three stages
1. Primary education,
2. higher education and
3. Research and development

Government is working on giving primary education to all. Pushing every one for higher education and funding research and development. I cannot imagine a complete overhauling of the system but effectively it end up being so.

Let me start with primary education.

it can be divided into two parts
primary school and high school

Primary School: T

his should be compulsory education for all. It should be focused.
1) to make good habits,
2) good reading and writing capability
3) developing scientific attitude.
4) picking up some hobby and art form.
5) getting to know the environment.
6) learning the culture.

i think one does not need to spend 10 years for this. There should be focus 5-7 years of time span. after this there should separation of student based on their learning. which should be called high school.

High school at this stage there should be choice to opt out for special education. It should be in accordance with society and culture. like religious studies and parental vocation. this will be dealt later.
1) The meritorious student should be segregated for stimulus studies. The study material can be more intensive for them. this should not exceed 20% of the total number.
2)Average student would be the vast number of the students. They should be trained for increasing their capabilities. Few of them may be meritorious but might have landed in average due to negligence. Some of them may prove them selves.
3) Below average may be 10- 20 %. They should be taken special care otherwise they can become negative. they may have some physical, mental or emotional disabilities. Special teacher should be appointed for them to identify the hidden powers in encourage them in their lives. They cannot be left behind. Society must realize their role in the future making.

After completing education in school there should be screening of students for different two different streams. Academic and Technical.

1) Academics:
this should be divided into two levels under-graduate and post-graduate.
a) Under-graduate: In this the student should show a special love for subjects and prove his worth in those. student should be able to pick up subject of their choice.
in first year may have 6 subjects in second years 4 subjects and in third year two subjects. the number of papers will remain same though out.
there should be screening of students to be taken to higher studies while finding job opportunities for the other students.
b) Post graduate: This should be intensive study in a particular subject and focused on deeper understanding.


2) Technical studies:

wrong assumption

i was listening to Mr Obama. he was responding to some economic company. he told that USA is engine of growth. so if USA stops growing world will stop growing. first part may be true but second part does not hold water. USA may be engine of the growth now but if USA stops growing then some other country will chip in. it is by their won term the survival of fittest. so if china becomes the engine of growth then let it be. if Bharat becomes engine of growth let it be. if Brazil becomes engine let it be. time will change and leader will give way.

All questions were focused on economy and defense. those are two major areas of present day society, based on greed and fear factor. economy means fulfilling evergrowing desire and where there is not the desire aim is to inculcate that desire.second factor is for dominance and instilling fear in people. if somebody is not afraid then creat a picture to instill fear in him and then make him join the gang of war mongers.
it would have been lot positive if the focus of economics would have been welfare of people and defense should have been for protection of Dharma.
but that is too much to ask from our leaders.

Think Over

Looks like journalists have very few topic to talk about i.e. terrorism, financial crisis, celebrities and few more similar topics. They will say the terrorism is the main problem and finance is the main solution.
Terrorism survives by terrorizing, or inculcating the fear factor. what are these journalist doing? they are aggravating the fear factor thus supporting the cause of terrorists. The solution, centered around money, breeds greed.
So people listen to the rant of the journalists all day long and believe it as the truth. Then they will act and slowly become part of the propaganda.
So the question comes why people are listening to them?
There was a time when people did their work and listen to man of God for for higher wisdom. Life was going on fine. Situation deteriorated and sustainance of the life itself became problem. Probably men of god failed in providing the solution of the life, so people looks at fellowmen for support. Few of them gave a good leadership and then became icon. They were treated as gods. Have you been Rajghat, understanding this will be easier. but soon there was again down fall. leaders failed to provide ideal to society. This was ideal time for anarchy. The empty place was filled by the people of greed and conceit. Now they are leading life of society. What does one expect from these people. It is not to say that god men and ideal men are not there. they are but in fewer number and out of focus of the society. some times they too fall prey to the means of the present ways and join them.
the solution must be provided by men of character and vision. Men of vision also means one who have had darshan-of their inner being the supreme being and unity of all beings.
People will evolve and the solution will appear like a lightening.

Neck tie

I was back from work and fantasizing about some of the future plans. One of them was to think differently. I was thinking of tie culture. Every one uses tie and it has become a symbol of being elite. If it is told that tie has originated from the collar belt tied around the pets and slaves to be kept under control by their master, what wuld be the reaction of the people. people would hide their tie. then some would stop wearing it if it is not essential.
i wa sthinking on these term when i started Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol. In the first few pages i came across the origin of tie.

It talk that neck tie or cravat it is similar to Fascalia worn by Roman orators to warm their vocal chord. but there is another origin suggested. Croat mercenaries donned neckerchief before they stormed into battle. Similarity was brought with the managers entering board room with necktie

Manpreet Singh Badal

Kuch taan raavaan unj vi aukhiyan san,
kuch taan gal vich gamaan da tauk vi si,
kuch sheher de log vi zaalim san,
kuch sannu maran da shauk vi si
(The path I was treading was difficult/
I was tied down by my own worries/
It was also that the people of the city were cruel/
It’s also that I had a death wish in me
-Munir Niazi Pyunjabi poet who migrated to Pakistan after partition.
these lines were quated by Manpreet Singh Badal.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/my-uncle-is-a-very-practical-man-and-knows-difficult-decisions-could-lead-to-electoral-losses/699345/0

I loved his position where he tries to correct the financial difficulties in his ways for some time. when he saw that he is not able to do some which he wishes and only remained as puppet in hands of majority whom he considered were not logical. he left the position. what ever may be the background but apparently, Good stand taken by him.

Sankhya Philosophy

This happens to be the hundredth blog in the list.

i found a link from Advaitaasharam
http://advaitaashrama.org/cw/volume_2/practical_vedanta_and_other_lectures/a_study_of_the_sankhya_philosophy.htm

That was interesting

so i searched little more
http://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/philo/samkhyavrg.asp

first one gives some of the essential parts of philosophy while second was quoting it profusely.

something interesting from Pakistan

This is one good news which appeared about Pakistan since long time, in economic times today
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News-Politics/Nation/Pakistan-turns-down-World-Bank-ADB-loan/articleshow/6785415.cms

it seems Pakistan does not want loan. it wants to rebuild itself with whatever resources it has got. it is of another matter that instead of loan it wants aid. it has refused $ 2 billion loan but did not turn down similar amount of loan. It notthe time the intention of Pakistan is to discuss. i would like to point out something interesting. what was more surprising was the reaction of bank people
"The government's decision not to use the loan of $3 billion has really perturbed both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, as their targets to market their loans in Pakistan would suffer," sources in both the banks told the daily.
so typical of soodkhors. thinking of increasing height of their mansion taking rubble of neighbor.

Regarding UID project

It appeared in The Hindu today
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article839917.ece?homepage=true

few extracts
It raises four points against project.

1) the project would necessarily entail the violation of privacy and civil liberties of people.

the justification given is as followed
A foundational understanding in the study of individual freedoms,....is that consequence-independent absolute rights are rather hard to defend. Hence, the demand to trade-off one freedom for another is an untenable demand. Each freedom, independently, has an instrumental value, and the loss of one freedom undermines the individual's overall capability to expand up on other freedoms.

my comments: Here the trade which is cited is privacy and security. What will the information available in UID, which will question the privacy of the individual. and who is interested in hiding the information? Location, properties, relation, criminal record- are these the information which you want to hide? What is wrong if greater transparency is brought in the public life. A right citizen will not be afraid of telling facts. Only critical information should be refrained from going public. they remain internal and external security aspect of the nation, business and political strategy a nd some more similar matters. apart from that more it it available in public more responsible citizen will become. going for the collection of information i think nobody can stop government from collecting such information. When Government wanted to collect information regarding presence of muslims in army it did it. why to waste extra expenditure on such survey if they can be made available in single go. These will lead to formation of policies. one can oppose policy. that does not mean that one should oppose the survey itself. during cesus too many data is taken. Is author going to question those data too. even they can be termed as violation of privacy.

then there is another justification pointed out
police and security forces, if allowed access to the biometric database, could extensively use it for regular surveillance and investigative purposes, leading to a number of human rights violations.

So who is afraid of investigation. people may talk of misusing the law by police. but that logic can be applied for any law. does that mean that all such law should be scrapped. there should be law to punish police, who misuse it. but that also means that it can be used. let us give it a chance. It is certainly not undemocratic. nothing much will be achieved by demonizing it.

2)it remains unclear whether biometric technology — the cornerstone of the project – is capable of the gigantic task of de-duplication. The Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) “Biometrics Standards Committee” has noted that retaining biometric efficiency for a database of more than one billion persons “has not been adequately analysed” and the problem of fingerprint quality in India “has not been studied in depth”.


3)Third, there has been no cost-benefit analysis or feasibility report for the project till now.
My comments: when 70000 crores can be spent for uplifting national image, what is wrong in spend little about a project which has multiple purpose even in future.

4)Finally, the purported benefits of the project in the social sector, such as in the Public Distribution System (PDS), are largely illusive. The problem of duplicate ration cards is often hugely exaggerated. Even so, some States have largely eliminated duplicate ration cards using “lower” technologies like hologram-enabled ration cards.

My comments: when hologram enabled ration card was issues it was to make it proper. if there is any offort to make it better why there is question regarding that. it is known that migrants are not there in their native to enjoy the PDS. so there should be alternative way to implement this. to say that duplicate ration card problem is exaserated means that the problem exists.


there is a political angle too. Like any other The Hindu article the corner stone of the article has to be Hindu bashing for that BJP bashing and for that NDA bashing. that is one of the standard merit of regular columnist in The Hindu. This article fits the bill. so it find the root of problem in NDA rule.

The first phase of today's UID project was initiated in 1999 by the NDA government in the wake of the Kargil War. Following the reports of the “Kargil Review Committee” in 2000, and a Group of Ministers in 2001, the NDA government decided to compulsorily register all citizens into a “National Population Register” (NPR) and issue a Multi-purpose National Identity Card (MNIC) to each citizen. To ease this process, clauses related to individual privacy in the Citizenship Act of 1955 were weakened through an amendment in 2003. In sum, the ground work for a national ID project was completed by 2003 itself.

The parallels between the UPA's UID and the NDA's MNIC are too evident to be missed, even as the UPA sells UID as a purely “developmental” initiative. The former chief of the Intelligence Bureau, A.K. Doval, almost gave it away recently, when he said that UID, originally, “was intended to wash out the aliens and unauthorised people. But the focus appears to be shifting. Now, it is being projected as more development-oriented, lest it ruffle any feathers”.

it has become fashion to put everything one considers wrong in the basket of the political opponent. so there is nothing surprising to read insertion of this logic.

My visit to Kyoto center

I have heard a lot bout the scenic beauty of Kyoto. it is not very far away but due to some or other reason i could not go there for sight seeing. Last Sunday I got chance to visit Kyoto Sai center. Ishida san took me by his car. We reached early so we decided to visit a temple. it is temple with many arched. There is a way which leads to the top of the hill. it has many arches. That is its beauty.

later it was time at Sai center. I had three hours for teaching Gayatri mantra. So i thought of listening it individually and teach of any thing has gone wrong. There were only few common mistakes. There were few mistakes which i became more aware this time. it seems people appreciated this type of interaction. i did not know what was special. I have received some mails also in that regard. i don't know if that is a formal appreciation or reality. whatever it may be. It was His plan and all the praise is for Him.
I shared one incident with people there. It was Vijayadashami day so i talked about Mother Durga. The fight was very long long episode to narrate in the small time available. so i took one incident. That was the time when the Asura was about to fight with Devi. before that Devi had taken multiple form to annihilate demonic force. so the demon complained that Devi was with so many form while he was alone. so Devi replied. "It is you who see many, saints and sages see me as one."
i took this statement and then elaborated that. to see many in unity is the vision of of demon and to see the one in many is the vision of saint.
with that it is left to us to decode what we are. certainly there is demonic quality in us in smaller or greater extent. it is the anhilation of that demonic quality which mother finishes in this war which is called vijayadashami.

the real Issue behind CWG

so typical of Sainath
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article834612.ece?homepage=true

Trend in science

This article was put up by Nomura san (Assistant Professor) of this lab. I liked it.
http://cenblog.org/the-editors-blog/2010/10/it%E2%80%99s-not-the-money-stupid/

few highlights

The culture of academic research has shifted over the past 50 years from research evaluation based on teaching, creativity, and productivity to one based simply on the amount of money (often now called “resources”) raised.

1) A number of factors have played a role in this change:
the “business model” for universities,
2) an increased willingness to accept greed as a virtue in our society and as a measure of success, and
3) a desire for an easy “objective” measure of something that is otherwise difficult to quantify.

the final decision to fund really comes from project officers who have often become remote from the frontiers of research and often fall prey to the fad of the month. It is also true that the best grant-swingers are those who are willing shamelessly to hype their research and their field—truth and modesty be damned.

The agencies, forever seeking more funding from the government, also keep inventing an alphabet soup of new programs.

....potentially even more damaging trend is a growing expectation by universities that
1)faculty should help fund operations not only through overhead from research grants, but also
2) through the generation of intellectual property (IP).
3) to generate patents and find partners to license them, or, even better,
4) to nucleate new start-up companies.
...universities are hiring highly paid administrators—with visions of Warfarin and Gatorade dancing in their heads—to head technology commercialization efforts. These are intended not only to generate additional funds for the university, but also to demonstrate to the public the “economic value” of the university to society. These kinds of activities have even been described as “critical to the mission of a university.”

If working closely with students and doing long-term fundamental research is not the goal and money is the important thing, there are more lucrative professions than academic ones for them to pursue.

....the perceived importance of money in science has led to a public backlash on issues like climate change and chemical toxicity, with the feeling that scientists are pushing these areas to get funding and not necessarily because they believe all that they report. This indeed is tragic.

Some Ayodhya Links

very strong foriegn writter
http://koenraadelst.bharatvani.org/books/acat/index.htm

some legal details which appeared in Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com/287696/A-perverse-discourse.html

of course some humor too
http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2004/16-30Sep04-Print-Edition/163109200407.htm

Legal support for Ayodhya

http://www.dailypioneer.com/287696/A-perverse-discourse.html

be aware

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/constituencies-with-sizable-muslim-population-be-dereserved/698687/

there were two different points raised in that article
"It is surprising and very sad to note that wherever minority population is more than 20-25 per cent, sometimes 30 per cent, these constituencies in Parliament and in the (state) Assembly have been reserved," he said.

I wonder if that was the criteria for reservation of the seat. seat reservation was done based on the SC ST population. now saying that due to this reservation Muslims are not getting representation same can be told for the upper caste people too. so what is the point of complain. so where is the idea of putting this reservation. It would be better if the whole reservation system is hauled up.

The next point which was brought up in the article was
"By embracing to some other religion or by getting converted into other religion his social status is not converted. Person converts to only his concepts and thought but his socio-economic status or political status remains the same," he contended.
But that was the axactly the philosophy for conversion. isn't it? for conversion socio-political status was given as the reason. now it shows that the reason was not good. does that mean that conversion was not a good idea. thoughts can lead to such a point too. If people are so interested in claiming the space reserved for SC St then one can reconvert to their religion to enjoy the status of SC ST.

somebody is talking facts

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article818314.ece

i was surprised how The Hindu allowed it to be published. That is Subramanium Swami. so typical of him.

there are some points which are often pointed out but there are few less known. later ones are quoted here.
1) the Supreme Court judgment [reported in (1994) 6SCC376] in which the court.... held that “Hindus must bear the Cross for it.” This was an extraordinary judicial observation and has profound implications for all communities whenever religious premises are destroyed.

very nicely put without hurting anybody in particular. but everyone need not be hiding behind the words. it simply means that for every temple brought down all Muslims have to bear the cross.

2) A fundamental question arises: Can a temple and a masjid be considered on a par as far as sacredness is concerned? Relying on two important apex judgments that hold the field today, the answer is: No. A masjid is not an essential part of Islam religion, according to a majority judgment of a Constitution Bench of India's Supreme Court (op.cit. 1994), whereas according to the House of Lords, U.K. (1991), the temple is always a temple even if in disuse or ruins.

the first one being Ismail Farooqui vs Union of India case [reported in (1994) 6 SCC 376],
The Constitution Bench then rejected this contention, stating: “The correct position may be summarised thus. Under Mohammedan law applicable in India, title to a mosque can be lost by adverse possession. A mosque is not an essential part of the practice of the religion of Islam and namaz (prayer) can be offered anywhere, even in the open. Accordingly, its acquisition is not prohibited by the provisions in the Constitution of India”(para 82).

and the second is regarding sale of a Nataraja temple by a farmer to a dealer in UK

"On February 13, 1991, when I (Subramaniam Swami) was Union Law Minister, the landmark judgment dismissing the buyer's final appeal [see (1991) 4 All ER 638] was delivered. The Bench consisting of Justices Purchas, Nourse, and Leggatt concluded: “We therefore hold that the temple is acceptable as party to these proceedings and that it is as such entitled to sue for the recovery of the Nataraja” [page 648 para g].

focus please

i was watching some of the videos of on saicast.org. that was alwars's festival. there were two sets of videos. one with speech and other with pooja. i wanted to watch pooja part. what i noticed that along with visual there was lot of instrument and vocal background was added. i dont know what was the purpose of that music. if somebody wants to listen music they can listen as such. i dont know what was in mind of the person who made it. do they think that mantras are not interesting to hear. ar they think that everybody may not understand it. people go to see pooja because of those mantras. who says that everyone understand the music forget liking it. when it is mentioned that it is about pooja and only 10 min is given to you one should give only pooja.
now it has become trend to give some music to any happening. give commentary to the statements. and item numbers in movie. it just shows that you dont believe in the power of what was there. can't they focus on what they have to do.
anyway i dont have control over that. i should also restrain myself from commenting on it

contradictions?

now a days
capitalists talk of socialist language and socialist policies are like that of capitalist. robbers indulge in charity and charity organizations are finding loopholes to loot. businessman claim to have the practical wisdom and teacher concentrate on payslips.
there is no contradiction in these. there are no boundaries. there is only only one God money. there is only one scale money there is one marker money. look from any side that is only in focus of every act. if you have it then you are fine. if you dont have it, who you are?

itellectual corruption 2

how nice it was the time when the worker just did the job without much in interfering in policy making.businessman claimed to be business man and a teacher did only teaching. ruler was just ruling good or bad whatever was his way. every section had a goal. workers were the engines of movement. business man was responsible for circulation. ruler was for orderliness and intellectual was custodian of the knowledge. now every is getting mixed up. they were interdependent. so they maneuvered in their space rarely they crossed the boundaries. and whenever they crossed it was disaster.
the change is more stark now. what is the reason. suddenly the definition itself changed. all the power was vested in money all the value was infused in money. that has changed the profession of everyone. poverty was told as curse. every one was told have only one aim- to be richer and richer.
so work or power or the knowledge was evaluated in terms of how much money it could generate. these have led to corruption in these field. of all three mentioned intellectual corruption is most harmful. if somebody does a shoddy work. intellectuals sit down and define what is shoddy and then punishment can be handed over. when a corruption in power occurs there are different power lobbies to expose it. again intellectuals will define the abuse of power and there are changes of punishment being handed over. what happens when a intellectual corruption occurs. who defines them? it is intellectuals who themsleves are required to define it.
fallacies lies here.
if they do something wrong they will sit and define it right and everyone has to accept it. because all society have kept them at the highest pedestal. nobody dare question them. it is happening everywhere now. i can tell more about science field. environmental issues are raised because they need lot of money to be pumped in the environmental studies. hype is created around every disease and money is pumped in medicine making. terrorist issues are kept alive as the weapon development industries can thrive. energy shortage is cried out. food scarcity is developed to increase the price.
one is supposed to follow their solution even while they are not sure. they have axioms with probabilities but solution have certainties.
what is to solution for the environmental problem. live with environment. feel the pain. feel the joy. don't cut away from nature. environmental problems will be getting down.
health problem should be solved with better way of living rather than pouring in medicine development. if you feel energy is less use less. if food is less learn to be hungry. people will always be there to terrorize you but be fearless.
no! such solution will not be accepted. they cannot feed the money hungry minds of the intellectuals. it will break their network of definition which rest on each other for their validity.

what should we do to set the things right?
dont pay intellectuals. teacher should not be rich. they should always remain poor. question will come who will teach? only the people who are interest in teaching will teach. those who are interested in money should take up direct business instead. they should not have any luxuries. their life should be very difficult and very strict rules should be clamped. highest punishment for the smallest of mistake should put.

that will show how many are for knowledge and how many for money? intellectual corruption will be checked to great extent. society will get on the right path. don't worry about development. it will happen at the natural pace. we don't need to hurry up for that. it is better to sustain what we have rather than destroy everything in name of development. but who will bell the cat? the time somebody oppose then they will be outcasted and decredited.

intellectual corruption

Every other day we find media splattered with some sort of curruption or other. many a times monetary corruption is highlighted. because for the present world money is everything and anybody swindelling money becomes sinner and criminal. sometimes light is also shone on moral corruption. but now there is a escape for that-raise the bar of morality or sometimes change the definition to suit the action. actually corrupt people and not so strong to raise the bar or change the definition. they depend on another set of people who are so called intellectuals. these are set of people who are never questioned. they have no responsibility towards society. they claim that what they have is intellect which sharpened by their personal effort. teachers helped them but they were not responsible. if teacher could do it then all the students of a teacher would have become successful. it does not happen so it is their individual glory. they are free to do what they want to do and the society should only be thankful for what is given by them. they claim to have solution for all the problem sof society, which in many case have came up due to previous solutions which they has provided to the society.
this is the field of intellectual corruption.
no lay person can oppose them. they have immunity. they claim that lay person cannot fathom to understand them. they can only be challanged by another intellectual. so outside this circle you believe that certain intellectual will fight the case for you. but it does not happen like that. inside intellectual circle they understand their provinsial ignorance. but they cannot tell this to outside the circle so many a times they indulge in false pretense of knowledge. they have certain axioms which cannot be challenged. by the time they argue the axioms become truth and at the end of it what they propose is proved because of the axiom.
they talk of probablity in when they talk of axiom. when they talk of their results and suggestions probablity is replaced by certainity.
if the solution does not appear convincing. they tell it louder and repeat it again and again. they seek the support of power in return of adjusting results in favour of power. so the intellectuals get the support of power.
people realized that power is absolutely corrupted and it cannot be believed. next saviour of the society came was the media. they told that they will save them. society beleieved them and then they too became pawn in the hand s of intellectualls.

Inspiring Farmer

this is the site which gives about Mr.Subhash Palekar

http://palekarzerobudgetnaturalfarming.com/home.html

He hold view which are similar to mine. i think there is lot to learn from him.

I read about different types of natural agriculture techniques. like vermiculture or rishi krishi. but what i feel is that even they are not the solution to the problem. the solution to the local problem lies locally. they need not be imported. so the farmer has to be a local researcher in present and also in the age old culture.

Microfinancin Firms and New Suicide Trend

There has been news from the Andhra Pradesh about some suicide cases which were due to non payment of loan from the micro-financing firms. There has been voices of concern from different quarters. Some have told to punish the microfinancing firm agents
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/hyderabad/suo-motu-case-against-lending-firms-160
while some have even called for ban on such firms
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nellore/cpi-demands-ban-micro-finance-firms-936

These are knee jerk reactions and short term solutions. one should understand the real problem and go to the root cause.
what was the problem farmers faced in olden days. few can be listed
2) there were people who repeatedly borrowed money from the money lenders for investing in the farm. it was left to the honesty of the money lender. it must have supported the society for long time before it was accepted as system. but it was misused by few if not many and that pushed borrower in cycle of debt. some of them landed as bonded laborer for generations.
3)people thought one should save farmer from the clutches of the money lender. so banks were encouraged to lend money at lesser interest. in this process there was some fault to. banks were centralised and in many cases they did not understand the real need of farmers. major chunk of the loan was appropriated by the bigger farmers. really needy farmers did not even have enough documents to apply for the loan. apart from this this lead to populist measure by some politicians who announced loan melas and loan waiver in case of natural calamity destroying the crop.
4) subsidy was given on fertilizer and seeds were provided by governmen electricity was for irrigation was coming from central grid. even water canals were controlled by the central agencies. crop was bought by government. all these made farmers dependent on the goverment. they always looked at the goverment for next step. farmers lost their independence. in turn villages lost their independence.
5) bad does not come in a fearsome dress. do you remember abduction of Sita. it takes the form of golden dear and makes you loosen your guard. you even send way your protection away. then comes the rakshasa in form of a sage. there too sita had a chanse to protect herself. she should not have crossed the laksman rekha. but she crossed and then she suffered for an year for her mistake in the land of Ravana. Thank God she had Ram as her savior. but what about others
here the bad came in form of microfinace. the role of the moneylenders were taken over by these. the problem will repeat. history will repeat itself.

what are solutions?
make farmer independent for seed fertilizer and water sources. tell him to recycle the seed. tell him to generate manure in the village. tell hm to conserve water. government should focus on catching hoarders and black marketing persons. government should focus on the storage of food at local levels in village and taluka level. for water problem ponds should be dug in every village. independent village should be given incentives and promoted.
one cannot avoid natural calamities. but if they are regular happening then government can prepare itself and the people for it. such action will keep these money borrowing habit at the bay. don't eliminate such financing organizations but reduce dependence on them.

Western lifestyles plundering the tropics

this was reported in the Hindu

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article828761.ece

WWF report shows resources are being used at 1.5 times the rate nature can replace them — but long-term decline of animal life appears to have been halted.

The Earth's population is using the equivalent of 1.5 planets' worth of natural resources, but the long-term decline of animal life appears to have been halted, a WWF report shows.

The latest Living Planet report, published on Wednesday by the conservation group, also reveals the extent to which modern Western lifestyles are plundering natural resources from the tropics at record levels.

The report shows that the overall health of animal species — considered an important indicator of the health of ecosystems — has remained roughly constant since the beginning of this decade, after at least three decades of steady decline.

However the global figure masks a growing gap between the temperate zones to the north and south of the equator. Since 1970, richer countries in the temperate zones have enjoyed a 30 per cent rise in populations of the more than 2,500 different mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian and fish species monitored — largely because of improvements to water and air quality and conservation work. Tropical zones, in contrast — where most of the planet's volume and variety of species live — have seen a dramatic decline of about 60 per cent.

The report compares these results to the latest measurements of the size of the ecological footprint — the area of the planet's surface required to provide the resources consumed in a year — of citizens in different countries.

This shows that overall, the Earth's population is consuming the resources of 1.5 planets — or it takes one-and-a-half years to replenish the resources used in one year. This again masks vast differences between the lifestyles of people from mostly poorer countries with footprints of less than one-fifth of a hectare each, and those in the richest nations who each need a nominal five hectares or more. The global average is about three hectares.

“There's going to be global trade and that's not always a bad thing,” said Colin Butfield, head of campaigns for WWF. “[But people] in many subsistence countries depend on their local water source and if upstream you have got a big industrial cotton- or soy-growing plant, we're starting to affect in many many cases around the world the ability for poor people to develop, feed themselves, industrialise, to supply basic products we use every day: soy beans for cattle, cotton for clothing, and so on.” “We're also taking away the natural capital of those countries, and only a small number of people in those countries benefit.” The centrepiece of the biennial Living Planet report, published in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network, is the Living Planet index, which tracks the decline or increase of nearly 8,000 populations of more than 2,500 different species. The resulting chart of progress over time — likened to a stock-market index — shows how from a base of one in 1970, those populations changed little in the 1970s, declined noticeably in the 1980s and 1990s, and have stabilised at about 0.7 since the early years of this decade.

The real picture is, however, likely to be worse, because the latest report includes new animal populations, and because there are still many tropical species which have not been identified by scientists yet, said Mr. Butfield. The living planet index also does not directly measure other problems such as plant biodiversity, water and air pollution, and the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change — issues more likely to be reflected in the ecological footprint figures.

The report, which is published just weeks before a major conference on slowing or halting the loss of biodiversity in Nagoya, Japan, calls for a series of changes to help address the problems, including more protected areas, zero net deforestation, eliminating overfishing and destructive fishing practices, and finding ways to put a value on biodiversity and ecosystem services. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2010

Japanese Sai Youth

This was the name given during there days camp we had at Tokyo.
I was told to deliver a speech on the topic "Daiva preeti paap Bheeti sangh neeti." i thing it went on well and was well rceieved.
though some of the points were prepared well in advance there was new points which came, while i was giving speech. I told that youth should be shown the glorious picture of the Past of the society in cultural and spiritual way.

later i taught Vedamanuchchharyo mantra. for that i requested for the practice session on other two days which i was given. i think many of the people picked it up quite well.

then during the brain storming session i gave idea of cam,p for youth for a taste of spiritual life. in the later session i gave another suggestion of making a cartoon representative of youth as MC narrator and story teller. this was based on two factors that Japan has become very famous in cartoons and then there were many arists in our group. even a cartoon designer too.

number was very less but people were enthusiastic about it.
Swami bless all.

types of love

There are three examples to illustrate these three types of love. Svaartha or selfish love is comparable to the bulb that illumines just one single small room. This cannot be called love at all. Anyonya Prema is like moonlight. Though it illumines all directions, it is very dim. It does not help one to have a clear perception. You may mistake a rope for a serpent and a stump of wood as human body in moonlight. Similarly, you may mistake a good man to be a wicked one and vice versa due to illusion. But Paraartha Prema is like Sunlight which is very bright and
will not give room for any doubt.

happiness

If free from arrogance, you are loved.
If free from anger, you are free of sorrow.
If free from desires, you gain wealth.
If free from greed, you become happy.

Sin

found a nice quote at

http://www.journeywithspirit.com/christianspirituality_meaning_sin.htm

For me, the religious definition of sin has always held a dual meaning—I am wrong and I am not worthy of God’s love. But when I look at sin from a spiritual perspective, the meaning changes to I missed the mark of my potential this time, but God’s love and grace are always there to guide and remind me of my inner greatness to live a life of integrity. When I am conscious of my actions and their effect upon others, I make choices that reflect my positive intentions.

Santhosh Hegde and bhoopinder hooda

Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde talked with Indian Express editor Shekhar Gupta. he was talking about the mining lobby. during that talk he said
"The entire area surrounding the mining area is totally devoid of greenery and has no agricultural activity. People there have no other vocation. God knows what will happen to them when the mining is stopped or controlled. None of them goes to school or college. All of them have been provided with a motorcycle, a cellphone and a daily allowance. Their job is to just go around and see if any stranger has come to that area and to report it. The entire area surrounding the mining area is totally devoid of greenery and has no agricultural activity. People there have no other vocation. God knows what will happen to them when the mining is stopped or controlled. None of them goes to school or college. All of them have been provided with a motorcycle, a cellphone and a daily allowance. Their job is to just go around and see if any stranger has come to that area and to report it."

this statement showed deeper malady which is penetrating the society. what does this development hold for the society as whole. in the process of development there is a section who will loot the nature without any regard and then give a petty share to the others for their loyalty and blind following. at the end of it who is the looser. unknowingly we are the looser. we the society, we the culture we the humanity. Educated ones are not better in this respect. they get bigger share in this loot they are happy with emenities provided them. that ends the story for them. they dont care how it is created and how this creation is in fact a destruction. it is like some children taking out the foundation bricks from the edifice to make a dog house. removal of the brick will not be noticed till the building collapse. There are few who will have forewarning of the collapse and even other place to shelter but those are the people who never belong to the building. In fact they never belongs to any place. they belong to themselves then to the money and thento few counted family members and friends. What about the people who loved the land passionately and had invested their everything thing making that building. they will die with teh collapse of building. the price of that burial ground will allowed to fall and then again it will be bought by a person with lot of money and no love for land. he will make a building and sell it at exorbitant price. he will get what he loved- money. but what about others. no thoughts. we cannot blame the money lovers. but the land lovers are to be blames for letting down their love for the land. love also means being ever vigilant for the object of love. doing everything for it. not for the glory but for the love.

Then i came across the interview with Bhupinder Hooda, CM of Harayana. He has been praised by many for his policy to for land acquisition.

It was titled , "Why should farmers always remain farmers? They should be given other opportunities"

That attracted my attention. Few expert from his interview

-Absolutely. Generation to generation, kya unhi ke naam likha hua hai ki wohi zameen ke saath rahenge? (Why should farmers always remain farmers?). They should also be given opportunities. They should also be treated as other citizens are treated.-

Thank god the original Hindi sentence was also provided and we are not left at the mercy of the biased and little knowledge reporter to enlighten us with the meaning. the translation is bad. it should have been " where it is written that they only have to remain with land". It was told later that they consider land to be their life line. what could be the other meaning of the sentence that that it is no where written that since they have been farmer for all along the generation they have right over the land. we will decide what is to be done with the land beacuse we are policy maker and we are the intelligent. Inside their heart they are waiting for thetime they can grab the land.
Once they get hold of oxygen cylinder they will tell why one has to breath in the fresh air. air has pollution. goverment will controll air. they will purify it and give it to you. if i say that i want to use this air because this is vital for me. they said that see even with so much of air people die. sometime they suffocate inside water and die. but if you take oxygen cylinder you will not die even inside water due to lack of oxygen. apart from that this is made highly purified. there is no polutant. i may say that my family cannot afford this expensive cylinder. tthey said fine they will give me the licence to use the oxygen cylinder for some time, which we consider is your life time. i was left confused while the gas mask was put on my face. if i protest it will be taken away. and i will die. many of my neighbour have already put on. they are jumping in joy.


Because land is their capital.

Yes, that is their capital. For an industrialist, his capital are his industries. He develops them. So, a farmer should also be given opportunities. If he fetches a good price for his land, then he can do something else also. His children should also be able to put up some industries. His children should also have better education. What I mean is that farmers should be treated at par with other citizens.

so what effectively you have done? you have taken capital from farmers and increased capital of the industrialists. you say them to become industrialist, with that 33000/ per year along with apeice of land which he may have to give way to make the road broader so that the bigger car of the industrialist can safely take turn. you never treat farmer at the par with other citizen. you demean them. you dont like them. you love industrialists. you want everyone to convert to industrialist.

Have you found farmers responding favourably? Have people come and thanked you and said, ‘Choudhary saab yeh theekh kiya’?

Everyone is happy and the policy we brought in Haryana is being appreciated by our leaders too.

who are happy? even a drunkard looks happy. but any same man knowns thatthat happiness last all long as the alcohol has controll over him. after the intoxication is over he will realize that he is in worse situation than he was before drinking. but dont worry he will get addicted to drinking and will submit everything he own fo rthe few peg you will offer.

Mr Hooda, two problems remain even in Haryana. First, people say in Gurgaon, Mr Hooda gives us Rs 1.03 crore per acre. He also gives us an annuity. But he gives this land to a developer. The state has the power to change land use. So the moment the land use is changed to commercial or residential use and a 60-storey building is allowed, the value of this land becomes Rs 10 crore per acre. Why am I not getting a part of that arbitrage?

I must clarify, the government never gives land to a developer. HUDA develops it. Developers purchase directly from the farmers. In fact, a licence is given in collaboration with the farmers.

all thsi appears more like technicality to confuse the people in place of being staright and honest.

The point is that agricultural land becomes residential or commercial when you approve it. When that happens, the value of the land goes from x to 5x. Is the farmer getting a part of that arbitrage?

Yes, we have an oustees policy. We give them an alternative plot, some small commercial plot also.

Yo always ahave alternative policy for farmer why not for youself and your industrial friends.

The second problem is of social impact. I know some are very smart farmers who use a part of their money to buy a car and a house but with the rest of it, they go to Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh or even up to Manipur and buy a much larger parcel of land and start cultivating there. In your experience, what percentage of farmers are able to do this and what percentage squander away that money?

As far as farmers from Haryana are concerned, I think most of them go and purchase land in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh. When I go to Chhattisgarh, there are lots of farmers whose land has been acquired, purchased. So I think more than 90 per cent people...

Buy other land?

Buy a car also and that is right. They also have the right to own a car.

so the care is what a farmer need? that is the conclusion by you. farmer need land. what have you done by giving him money is that. he will go and buy large track of land in poor people. making them landless and slave for you in turn. this is much vicious cycle then thought of.

So he gets the money and, say, a multi-storied apartment complex comes up on his land. This farmer, meanwhile, has moved to the hinterland of the same area. They feel like social outcasts. Two worlds come up within the same environment.

That is right but with that, if they get a good price and a good rehabilitation programme, they’ll raise their living standards.

But you are not looking at the possibility to bring them into this development so that they also get an apartment there.

That’s also there because we are allotting plots to them. The plot is given to the farmer according to the size of his land acquired. Small shops are also being allotted to them.

And why must he be condemned to earning Rs 15,000-Rs 20,000 per acre?

He should also be given opportunities, better prospects in life.

Mr hooda he was earing more than that from every acre every ear. you have robbed him of his money and made few people rich. you take taken their blood and pumped in others to make them fat. realize that system cannot go on for longer like this.

Why is this annuity for 33 years?

Because I think that is one generation. Because an old man who has land in his name and his land is acquired, what happens if the money goes to his children? He is left with nothing and so he depends on his children. Suppose there is annuity, then his children will also look after him. He will have confidence in himself.
who has decided this 33 years. it is not about a person. it is about family. ot is about village. it is about culture. it is about sensitivity and it is about honesty. all that was worth 15 K for 33 years.

Quoting Swami

Once Rakhal Chandra Ghosh ( who later became Swami Brahmananda) was crossing river to meet Ramakrishna. Boat man used very hards words for Ramakrishna. Rakhal was pained by his words but kept quite. That day Ramkrishna chided Rakhal for not telling even a word in favour his Guru. Narendra nath Datta ( who later became Swami Vivekananda) was also listening to it. after few days when he was crossing the river the boatman again started talking rubbish about Ramakrishna. Narendra caught hold of boatman and threatened to throw him in the river if he did not stop his nonsense. Boatman was petrified seeing the muscular man speaking like that. Unfortunately Narendra was also rebuked by Ramakrishna for being to harsh to people who oppose.
It is very difficult to understand the ways of divine people. Quoting them to support their logic should be avoided at any cost.
Why did I say narrate this? I narrated this because I saw a wire post which read.
Swami's take on Ayodhya issue (in the year 1993) to BJP, VHP, RSS leaders in Parthi "Lord Rama's Janmabhumi is Mother Kaushalya's womb"

That was not only in 1993 but latter too Swami seems to have said that. Beasue I joined later and I have heard it myself. Swami told this In discourse. One of the leader had asked Swami “ Swami! if you say that the place we are fighting is not the birthplace of the Lord Ram we will give up claim.” What a golden opportunity for the controversy to die. But Swami told that Mother Kaushalya’s womb is the birthplace of Ram.
Now people will make meaning from it. Swami did not support or oppose the opinion that Ram was born in that place or not. But people will not miss a chance to give meaning to it.
What I understood is that the controversy and time was not worth intervention. That is a man mad controversy and should be resolved by them.

I remember one boy was giving speech during morning prayer session and he too quoted this. I could understand his tone. I have seen people becoming very subjective while discussing.
How about another quote from Swami
“There was a time every villager revered temples now to get one temple built one has to fight so much.”
That day another guests had arrived.
I did not understand the inclusion of words like to BJP, VHP and RSS leader. Even without those words Swami’s take would have had similar effect. But then, I have got used to the tone and adjectives used while listening to this combination of words.
We have been taught to see the world in black and white. What happens to grey? They can be termed black and white depending on the viewers. Unfortunately, most of the world is grey colour. That leaves great freedom to paint anybody in any colour. The problem is as stated by a scholar, which Today I happen to read a quote.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley

I remember a song which was taught to us
Yah matribhumi meri…,
It still resonates once in while in my memory lane. That was song which one of the leader sang in front of Swami and Swami had liked it. he told students to learn and sing during next Gurupurnima. How many of our brothers will feel uncomfortable in knowing that the song is one from the RSS shakha collection.
What I want to say is that when there is controversy we should not quote Swami to support our logic. Somebody who might have read more might quote Swami in opposition too.

We have specific task with this site. And I think we should limit ourselves to that. The lakshman rekha should not be crossed. I am part of another email group. There too I have seen that slowly the line starts getting blurred and it vanishes at one point of time. Humor changed to jokes and jokes metamorphose into stereotypes. But with time, everything looks justified. There was one boy who constantly opposed such transgression of limit. People may not have liked his words but I developed appreciation for it.
Another thing which we have been told to avoid is politics. I don’t think that means that one should not have interest in politics. We are free to have our opinion, after all, many of us go for voting for particular candidate and parties, when election arrives. Similar other issues should also be avoided.
Most of us regularly go through newspapers and channels. Many of us hardly realize that without any exception all of them have bias in their reporting. News should be taken with pinch of salt. Thank God our message board is not oscillating as per the tide of news appearing in the newspaper and channels.
While I used word like avoid. I am not for, which is more from outside, and rather for self restriction. Even that is not as dangerous as quoting Swami in that matter. I have learnt from Swami that the reply to such controversies is not to involve into that but let taking attention away from it. When the question was asked to Swami He took the attention away from it. he did not answer in favor and nor in opposition.

Reply to siddharth vedarajan's article in The Hindu

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article805124.ece

Unlike author I will not pretend to be unbiased. There are basically few points raised by the author regarding faith, judgment and ASI.
First is about the basis of faith as the judgment.
Faith was the basis of the pre-existing structure. Faith was the basis for its destruction. Faith was the basis for the construction of mosque. The faith was basis for the British to allow worship at Ram chabutara. Faith was basis for closure of the doors during 1949. Faith was the basis of opening of the door 1986. Faith was the basis for destruction of mosque. Suddenly faith becomes irrelevant? What does author wants to convey by using words- legitimizing the “faith” and “belief”. Author is using very hard words -unverified and unsubstantiated- for soft faith. Which faith or belief waits for verification? There are many glorified intellectuals who wants verification of historicity of Ram. But that was the basic premise of the court’s judgment. Would author go a step ahead and question the basic premise of the court. It is to be pointed out that court has used words like Bhagwan and divine for Ram. There are many who don’t even believe in existence of God. Respecting such people does not mean that other should stop praying. To rake up the question of who is Hindu will prove very tough for author to digest. It will be very tough for author to even digest definition of much recently coined word, Hidutva, as given by Supreme Court”
Collectives in India have faith in all sorts of things- It can be hoped that this sentence was not meant to demean. Bharat is proud to have a system where it is free to have faith in all sorts of things rather than one and the only one.
Then there is question about the need of solving this matter.
Does author prescribe that with time, wrong should be forgotten? When mosque was built there was no way to redress the problem by court so people waited. British did not want to solve it, so people waited. Now that we are independent, if we are not able to solve it, then when can we. Author prescribes forgetful as remedy to the wrong. Next he may prescribe the same to all the cases which are pending in the court for long time. That would be nice suggestion to clear the back log. It is to be understood that individual crimes are gone with the individual, social crime is can be rectified even after generation and historical crime are to be rectified by history. We will be history for tomorrow. It was a sweeping remark which has been made about substitution of one religious structure for others. I hope author will collect evidence to support his claim.
Legal relevance of the Babri masjid was there because the matter was there in front of court. Previously, when few people sat upon settling the issue, it was cried out that it should be solved by court. Now that the court is trying to solve the issue it is being cried that it does not have legal relevance. Who is the authority to certify the relevance?
There is no mincing of word for the use of evidences. According to him History cannot be reason, faith cannot be basis, and Archeological facts cannot be evidence. He does not even feels hesitation is adding words to the judgment. The word supposed was cleverly inserted by the author. It was clearly stated that mosque was against tenets of Islam. If it still remains “supposed historical wrong”then author should clarify what will be supposed in history.
Lastly few words about ASI.
To find fault with ASI has become a fashion among few. To say that something is right or wrong one does need to have support of majority. Once scientific factor is taken in consideration then facts become important and not personal opinions. While questioning the archeologists of ASI, authors should also peep into the loyalties and associations of the archeologists and historians, he is referring. The reason for dispute will be made clearer. It would be wise to point objectively at the facts rather than becoming subjective in discussion.
At one point ASI is painted as tainted and in the very next sentence it is quoted that for not saying clearly that the builders of mosque were destroyer of temple. ASI stopped where it could not say anything with certainty. Author does not believe what ASI is telling but it believed what is not told by ASI. ASI was given a fixed task to find out if there existed a structure below the demolished mosque, as was claimed by certain group. It gave answer regarding that. To find fault with the findings, is right or wrong is open to all.
Question was raised by author regarding BJP government influencing ASI. Can he substantiate it. if such is the case then does he agree that every government has been influencing any such probe. or does he mean that other than BJP all are saints. Sense prevailed and the faiths of judges were not questioned buy the author.
Judgment has clearly stated that site is birthplace of Ram. By that logic whole of the site should have been given for that purpose. To keep waqf board and the Muslim community happy, part of the land has been partitioned. It is similar to the partition of the country to keep few people happy. Where did it lead to? Even partitioning between Hindus is not a great idea. When a fact is found it should be accepted. The place should have gone for making temple. What was wrong in the judgment was that it stated that it place of worship for Hindus. It should have been made open to all people of all religion. That would have been more inclusive judgment for betterment and harmony in society. Our history tells that by partitioning we never had peace, neither in Mahabharata nor in Bharat.

ayodhya verdict

ayodhya is supposed be without warrior. but it has thrown op many warriors. the war is continuing. today is supposed be another milestone day in the time line of Ayodhya. 60 years ago fight for the ownership of the piece of land in Ayodhya started. at that time there was a mosque. an idol of Rama appeared and Hindus started worshiping. there was an ongoing case over a a platform in front of the mosque for many years. it has to be seen in historical perspective. it was known that the mosque was made by one of the commander of Babur. it is well known that Muslim invaders destroyed many temples and in many place they erected mosques. it was put forth that even the temple at the birthplace of Rama was destroyed and mosque was built on that.
this made the discussion broader. till then only the platform was in question but after this whole of the land was brought under discussion. along with revenue details, historical question were asked. archeology was brought in the debate. historian, academicians, politician and religious heads took sides. after about 40 years, came 1992 when the mosque was brought down to make a temple at that place. at present a temporary mandir is at that place.
there are overalls question being asked
was there a temple before mosque was brought down?
does that land belong to Hindu or Muslim plaintiff?

there are many people claiming the right over ownership. there are many ideas with the land. from mandir and mosque to hospital, sports complex, shopping mall orphanage and even a urinal. that shows how Bharat can think beyond horizon. there is group who has kept all the materials ready for the mandir. there are political parties who are ready to rebuild the mosque.
one more day and the ball will set rolling. everyone is having his opinion. some clear some not so. some want to player and some spectator. but everybody is interested. there has been many attempts for compromise but it has failed.
the ball wil set rolling with the words of the judge.
people are speculation about out come. will it favour Hindus or Muslims.
we know how revenue details can be forged and how historical and archeological facts can be twisted to fit the theory. anyway i am not even aware of the fact which have been presented. judge is going to deliver a judgment which has been in making for last many years. he is at very important time at the history of Bharat.
according to me it could be like this
"There was a temple previous to the mosque as shown by the archeological evidences, which is in favor of Hindus. But revenue details are in favour of Muslims."

it would be very logical since before British Muslims ruled Ayodhya and it would be logical that land might have been with some Muslim owner

this will shift the ball back in the court of people. Judge will shake off his responsibility. He will choose not to interfere with the natural justice which should have been out through the political class and the mature society by now. It seems when the Idol appeared in the mosque, Nehru, then PM of India to the magistrate of the place to remove it or block devotees from praying. he told that he would prefer to give up his job rather interfere in the process. he had a conscience and he heard that voice. like that every one is listening to their voices.
we will wait for just one more day what the man of the day had to say.

global village and self sustainability

i read an statement in the profile of vijay kannnur. it read

(Vijay Kannur) is connected to the world at my home as my village is connected to world wide web,but self sustainability of village has faded..no more

very pertinent statement! in the name of connectivity we havae become dependent. and in this process we have lost our in dependence. for every thing we look at the government agency to respond to our need. poor government look at richer countries to respond. what is happening to the self sustainability of the social unit called village. what happened to the contentment among people. everytime we want to take rest an advertisement is shown which make us believe that we are lacking something which is must, and we loose our sleep for getting that. the mage is made in such away that to get that object you have to give up something which you cherish very much and become dependent on the provider.

Gayatri and Veena

i was going through some information about Rudra Veena ( one of the vanishing musical instruments). i came to know that there are 24 frets in the Veena. does it have any connection with the selection of 24 letter in Gayatri mantra.
why 24? it has puzzled me for long.

My world

The Story of Ganesha and Karthekeya iswell known among Bhaarateeya. i was told of this story while i went for Balvikas class. it was told for inculcating reverence for parents. but it is still very much relevant and with greater dimension for me.

Ganesha and Kaarthekeya agreed for race to go round the world. it appeared that Kartheekeya was more able with his slim body and fast vehicle, peacock. when He came back he still saw Ganesha sitting at the same place but the judges pronounced Ganesha as the victorious. Why?

While kartheekeya believed on his vehicle to conquer the world. Ganesha redefined the world. He refused to take the definition of kartheekeya. so in the eyes of karthekeya Ganesha was looser because he did not run around the world but even if we judge both by their own standards Ganesha won because criteria was to go round the world in shortest time.

so when the problem comes think about the definitions. sometimes they have flaw. dont take anything for granted as long as it is made by man. nothing is worth calling holy cow.
touch and transform for better. if you can then you are parasamani. feel the touch and if you are transformed for something better then accept the parasmani. respect it.

n?~
Is it assumed that effective literature is merely the result
of correct philosophical theory, or that literary skill is of negligible importance
when compared with theoretical combless?
stephen cox
the journal of libertarian studies Vol 8, No 1 19-30

ideas and reality

recently i wrote in my orkut message that
ideas are like colourful clouds in magnificent shaped inspiring the poetic minds. but it is the action like the colourless shapeless raindrop which satisfie the thirst

then i found another quote similar to it

All theory, friend, is gray;
Life's golden tree is green.
-Goethe, Faust

love all

one of the scholar was talking about development in society. he asked one of the poor people about development.
"i think getting electricity is mark of development."
"Why do you need that?"
"now we eat early and sleep early. we depend on sunrise to start our day. if we have electricity we will have light and we can work late in night. we can getup early and work."
"but why do you want to work"
"when we work we will be more productive. that will mean more money. we will be developed."
so the scholar wrote in his report that we have to bring electricity to the poor people.

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what does it mean?
we are teaching people that having money and the matter is sign of devepoment and having time to relax is sign of non development. you may have illusion but you cannot have both. choice is yours.
there are some people who have good time we are teaching them that they are wrong. they need to spend all their time in development. if they dont do it there is something wrong with them. they are made to hate their condition. in the process they hate themselves. love for everything is decreasing after that. they join the group of so called developed.

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how to go back?
start from where you lost.
love all.

Presence in abscence

Once darkness compelled to God " O Almighty lord! Please tell The sun not to chase me. I am not able to take rest"
The sun was summoned. God told "Sun! don't disturb darkness."
Sun replied " I don't want to disturb at all. i don't even know how the darkness looks. Please tell him to come to me I will seek forgiveness"
Darkness never met the sun. The case is still pending in the court of GOD.
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Darkness is only absence of light. it has not independent existence. absence and presence are not independent. They cannot coexist, But for their own existence they require existence of other. Death and life cannot coexist. but for their own existence they rely on other.
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An old father was troubled very hard by his son. he realized that it was all for his hard earned wealth. so one day he went out of his home without informing anyone. when he did not return for few days, son took the opportunity to announce that his father was dead. all the rituals for the dead was performed. papers were made for his death certificate. Son enjoyed the wealth of his father and soon felt that it was diminishing with every passing day. every day he was feeling that he was dying.
after some time it was known that his father was in another city and was taken care by a average earning man. who upon his advice took up few activities and earned very good name and fame of course wealth too.
The son told to his father to help him survive. his father became angry and wanted his property back. they went to the authorities. it was suggested that first the case cane be taken up to make the dead man alive. but that was going to take a bit longer and neither of the father son duo had no patience for that.
so the next case was registered in the name of the dead father and living son. father was paper dead and consciously alive and son was paper alive and consciously dead.
who had told that life and death don't co exist?

what have beed done

what
CD's have done to music,
books have done to knowledge,
power points has done to lectures,
televisions has done to entertainment,
mob?iles have done to communication,
transportation done to pilgrimage,
baby sittings have done to parenting,
social sites have done to friendship,
camera has done to paintings,
fashion have done to clothing,
fertilizers have done to agriculture,
.........????????


Yes there is development
but are we developing

Food distribution

food is rotting and people are going hungry. what people got was only words of hope and dreams of bright future. then came a message from supreme court that food should be distributed free. government responded that it cannot do that. then a reminder that it must do it.
i read the blog of Girish Shahane. quite appealing. it was wrong of supreme court to give such order. it was not its duty. policy is made by government. and it is responsible for it. once elected it is for government to decide the policy.they also know that wrong policy can lead them to loses in future.
there is opposition to counter the policy.if opposition opposes and people dont notice then it it is a different problem altogether. if opposition fails to oppose then it is to assume that all of them are unanimously accepting it. and if the policy is wrong then it means country does not have a worthy leader for elction. what is the use of great policy if there is no good leader.
what will the out come of such order. if there is some good outcome,quite doubtful. government will try to cash it. if it goes other way then it will tell that it was not its policy and only a directive of supreme court. what are we doing in this process. we know that our politicians are not responsible but the government as a body is supposed to be responsible to its policy. now we are creating a situation where even government will not be responsible for its policy.
Every one knows what will be sold in the PDS. rotten grain which Arab and European countries have marked unfit for human consumption. and after that the hungry will loose even right to ask fr the minimum food. in the name of the rotten food everything will be justified. price will increase further. there will not be any construction of storage facility and next when we will face the grain shortage it will be told that it was because we gave grain free. we will import to meet the need. whole lot of vicious cycle will set in.